Eco-Agents ( no, Miljøagentene) is a member-based

environmental organization An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environmen ...

for children. A subsidiary of the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, it has 3000 members. The three focus issues are conservation of nature,

global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

and consumption. The organization was founded in 1992 as ''Blekkulfs venner'', later ''Blekkulfts miljødetektiver''. In 2006, it changed to the current name, and discontinued its cooperation with the mascot '' Blekkulf'', a fictional

octopus An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttle ...

. The reason was in part to communicate better with older children, and in part because the organization had problems funding the license fees to the creators of the fictional characters. In 2015, the Children's Climate Panel was started by the Environmental Agents. Every year, the Environmental Agents organize the school competition Batterijakten.

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Official site
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